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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 3, 2012?

73 free events take place on Thursday, May 3 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out May 3 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of May . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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73 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, May 3, 2012

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Workshop | Park Tai Chi


Tai Chi and Eternal Spring are instructed by members of the Tai Chi Chuan Center for all ages and experience levels. Classes are rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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Discussion | No Way to Pay: What’s Next for Homeless Families in NYC?


New York’s homeless population is near an all-time high, with more than 40,000 New Yorkers living in shelters — including 16,500 children and their parents. Amid the continuing fiscal crunch, New York City and State recently ended a unique rent subsidy program that helped thousands move out of shelters and into apartments, and new federal rent subsidies are nowhere to be found. The search is on for new housing alternatives. What is next for families in the shelters... and those on their way there? Remarks from: Seth Diamond, Commissioner of New York Department of Homeless Services. Moderated by: Michael Powell, Gotham Columnist, New York Times. Discussion with: Catherine Trapani, HousingLink Director at New Destiny Housing Patrick Markee, Senior Policy Analyst at Coalition for the Homeless Steve Banks, Chief Attorney at Legal Aid Society of New York
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Festival | Bike Expo New York


Bike New York is bringing the largest free bike expo in the United States to New York City. This expo gives residents and visitors an unprecedented look at urban cycling against the backdrop of New York. Presented by Eastern Mountain Sports, Bike Expo New York will feature more than 130 vendors, live performances, hands-on programming, bike gear giveaways and of course, free bicycle classes for both youth and adults.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Other | Cinco de Mayo “Party in a Bag” with The Bachelorette Star


Looking for the best party this year to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? It's your own! The Bachelorette star Jillian Harris and Madria Sangria to launch the Pop-Up Madria Sangria Fruit Stand. Harris will be handing out Cinco de Mayo "party in a bag" kits, complete with fresh fruit, glasses and entertaining tips, so all you need is the sangria to start the party. The fruit stand is a fun, free break from the work day for any of your readers who love a freebie, need some entertaining tips or are reality TV fans.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Talk | Three Steps to a WOW Job Search


Renee Rosenberg takes you through the WOW (Wanting-Ouching-Winning) road map to creating a more focused and successful job search.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


This Organ Meditations Series features the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Tour | “Manhattan Adirondacks” Tour


Olmsted and Vaux designed the North Woods to replicate the forests of the Adirondack Mountains with its crystal streams, calming cascades, and rustic bridges. This scenic and meditative walk is right in New York City's backyard. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Concert | Chamber Music Department 2011-2012, Afternoon Recital 5


This concert is a chamber music recital featuring ensembles from the College Division Chamber Music Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Ensemble ACJW performs works by Mozart and more


Program: World Premiere by Ryan Gallagher (b. 1984) String Quintet in G minor, K.516 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Ensemble ACJW is the performing arm of The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. Ensemble ACJW performs at Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and other venues in New York City and New York State, including an annual residency at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The ensemble comes together in different sizes, having the opportunity to play intimate chamber music as well as larger, conducted chamber orchestra works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | PEN World Voices Festival: Fame and the Writer


The public image of today’s international literary stars is more often defined by the Internet and worldwide book tours than by what they write. Many successful authors feel that their celebrity has little to do with their work, and even less with themselves and their personal lives. In this discussion, two successful European writers, Jaume Cabré and Daniel Kehlmann (pictured), engage in a conversation about the alienating effects of seeing one’s life reflected in the public eye.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Other | Scrabble Mania


All levels of play welcome. Please bring with you...your Scrabble set (be sure it has all 100 tiles!), a Scrabble dictionary and, of course, a love of the game!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Reading | Karl Ove Knausgaard reads from his book My Struggle: Book One


The celebrated Norwegian author Karl Ove Knaussgaard reads from his new title. He is a winner of the 2009 Brage Prize, the 2010 Book of the Year Prize in Morgenbladet, the 2010 P2 Listeners' Prize, and the 2004 Norwegian Critics' Prize and was nominated for the 2010 Nordic Council Literary Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Martin Scorsese's Oscar Winner The Age of Innocence (1993): Edith Wharton's Novel


With Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder. Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin. 139 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Concert | Oakland University Chorale


Program: O Vos Omnes from Lamentations of Jeremiah - Alberto Ginastera Jubilate Deo - Orlando di Lasso Dominus Meus - Cristobal de Morales Et Recordatus Est Petrus - Jeffrey Cobb Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine - Eric Whitacre Ubi Caritas - Paul Mealor Tonight, Eternity Alone - Rene Clausen At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners - Williametta Spencer Kalinda - Sydney Guillaume Way Over in Beaulah Lan' - Stacey Gibbs
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Digital Camera Buying Guide


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to choose the right digital camera for your needs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Forum | Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics


In his famous essay “Why Read the Classics?” Italo Calvino writes, “The classics are books that exert a peculiar influence, both when they refuse to be eradicated from the mind and when they conceal themselves in the folds of memory, camouflaging themselves as the collective or individual unconscious.” How does this “peculiar influence” resonate for the writer? For the fifth consecutive year, the Great Works Program invites international authors to select a classic from the school's curriculum and discuss its influence within their life and work. Participants: Gabriela Adamesteanu, Giannina Braschi, Michael and Laurie Sheck. Moderated by John Brenkman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Talk | PEN World Voices Festival: Nobel Prize Winner Herta Müller on Her Poetic Origins


Born in rural Romania as part of the German-speaking minority, Nobel Prize laureate Herta Müller has recalled her childhood as a “school of silence,” where the loss of words reflected an inadequacy of language itself. It also resulted from an oppressive dictatorial regime with both communist and nationalistic traits. Writing became a way to break the silence. Don’t miss the rare opportunity to hear Müller speak about these themes. The talk is in German. Translation is available.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Citizenship, Public Space and Food: Jews in France and in the United States


A lecture by Pierre Birnbaum, an emeritus professor from University of Paris I where he taught political sociology. He wrote several books on the sociology of the State and also on a comparative sociology of Jews. He published extensively on French jewish society. Currently, Professor Birnbaum is a joint Tikvah/Senior Emile Noel Fellow at the Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization at NYU.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | College Violin Recital


Andrea Jarrett.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | College Violin Recital


Joshua Hong.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Film | Ben Stiller's Oscar-Nominated Tropic Thunder (2008): The Dude Who's Playing Another Dude


With Robert Downey, Jr., Jack Black, Ben Stiller. A group of pampered actors are taken to Southeast Asia to film the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. Through a series of freak occurrences the actors are forced to actually become the soldiers they are portraying in this over-the-top comedy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Got Clutter? Join the Clutter Support Group


Do you feel overwhelmed by the possessions, papers and piles that have taken over your life and space? Don't know how or where to start to make changes? You're not alone. Join the NYPL Clutter Support Group, an educational support group for individuals who are struggling with clutter and disorganization. The Clutter Support Group will be a member-based group facilitated by organizing expert AJ Miller. The group will meet on alternating Thursdays to address clutter and disorganization related issues and offer support, information, tips and techniques to combat clutter and become better organized. Open to people of all ages with any degree of disorganization.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Kimberley Hart / Jenna Spevack


Kimberley Hart’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Promise, consists of new drawings and sculptures in which Hart presents various narratives connected by themes of autonomy, reliance, opportunism, and intrusion, all intimately tied to notions of place and family. A solo exhibition by Jenna Spevack (pictured) uses installation, sculpture, and permaculture design. She will activate the gallery space into a living urban farm. Her aim: to provide healthy greens to extraordinary people with ordinary incomes. Through interactions with gallery visitors, Eight Extraordinary Greens will explore the value placed on food while simultaneously questioning the value placed on acts of artistic social practice within a gallery context.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | A Camera Darkly, Photos by Phillip Stearns and Christian de Vietri


A Camera Darkly introduces two contemporary artists that share an interest in bringing an experimental genealogy of photography to bear on the medium’s contemporary digital discourse. Using a digital camera and an optical scanner, respectively, these two artists treat their digital photographic technologies like physiological systems, subjecting them to electric shocks and paradoxical orders that push them to their points of failure. By questioning the integrity of the technological systems that supplanted human sight, these artists redouble the 19th century’s critiques and speculate on the beginnings of a new era in the history of vision. Shown: Phillip Stearns
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | PhotoGlobal: New Releases 2012


An exhibition of work by artists who participated in the 2011 – 2012 PhotoGlobal program, a one-year residency for emerging photographers from around the world offered by the BFA Photography Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Adult Yoga


Open-level yoga with a certified instructor! Please wear comfortable clothes and bring your yoga mat or a beach towel. All participants must sign a waiver form before they join in. For adults 18+.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Piano Recital


With Conor Hanick.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | College Voice Recital


With Raquel Gonzalez, Soprano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Digital Art: Tim Roseborough's A Puzzling Display


A Puzzling Display is a new artist-created online arts and culture game, accompanied by an exhibition of related artworks. Inspired by the annual "puzzle hunts" hosted by institutions such as MIT and Microsoft, Silicon Valley digital artist Tim Roseborough covers topics such as art history, music, film and culture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | German Interharmony Showcase Featuring Works by Martinu, Tchaikovsky and Gershwin


InterHarmony International Music Festival presents the first Sulzbach-Rosenberg Showcase in New York, featuring young esteemed soloists who performed in Germany. These performers bring to the stage unique, virtuosic works by Martinu, Bazzini, Tosti, Goens, Tchaikovsky, a song by German contemporary icon, Wolfgang Rihm and a cello quartet by Gershwin transcribed by Cellist Werner Thomas-Mifune for which Maestro Misha Quint will join the performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Group Show: Mix/Remix


Featuring: Rita Ackermann, Rita Ackermann SHADOW FUX Harmony Korine, Jeff Elrod, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Malcolm Morley, Albert Oehlen, Joyce Pensato, Richard Prince, Dieter Roth, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, Christopher Wool. Shown: Josh Smith, "Untitled," 2010, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches (152.4 x 121.92 cm)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | In the Urban Crisis


A lecture series exploring urban issues around the world. This lecture welcomes Pelin Tan, a sociologist/art historian based in Istanbul.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Dance Performance | La Rumba Cubana and Flamenco After 150 Years: An Open Rehearsal


Featuring Max Pollak RumbaTap and Jose Moreno. Max Pollak RumbaTap has developed a language transporting the rhythms of Cuban drummers to percussive dance and has worked with the venerated folkloric group Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. Under the direction of Aurora Reyes and Basilio Georges, Max Pollak RumbaTap will be joined by the electrifying and envelope-stretching dancer and percussionist Jose Moreno.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Jason Bard Yarmosky’s Elder Kinder


Yarmosky’s first solo show with the gallery pays homage to the idea that age is not a deterrent to living fully, but rather a springboard for exploration. Adding to his earlier works, these meticulously constructed and strikingly life-like new paintings examine the relationship between the limitations of social norms and the freedom to explore, particularly the juxtaposition between the young and old. Yarmosky is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and in countries around the world. Shown: "Sound of Silence," 2012, Oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Park Yoga


Expert instructors, provided by lululemon athletica, lead all levels of yogis. Mats are provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | PEN World Voices Festival: Reviewing Translations


When a translated work is under review, what exactly is being critiqued? Is it the work itself or the quality of its translation? How does reviewing a translation differ from reviewing a work in its original language? Should the critic be bilingual? An expert in the literature and history of a foreign culture? Join and expert panel of international authors, critics, and translators as they explore the nexus of translation and criticism. With Haykanush Avetisyan, Ruth Franklin, Julya Rabinowich, and Lorin Stein. Moderated by Eric Banks and Susan Bernofsky.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Rape after Foucault


A lecture by Linda Alcoff. The current period is characterized by a stark contradiction in regard to rape. On the one hand, sexual violence is a global epidemic, in both institutionalized and domestic sites, while on the other hand there is a great deal of uncertainty and confusion in the public’s mind, as well as among scholars, about the new categories of date rape and sexual harassment, whether incest and child sexual abuse are as rampant as some claim, and whether we are in the midst of a ‘culture of victimization,’ a social panic, or media sensationalism that over-dramatizes some incidents.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Ruth Gruber's Photographs as Witness, 1944-47


A special exhibition that features the work of Ruth Gruber, the 100-year-old legendary photojournalist and the winner of the 2011 International Center of Photography's Infinity Cornell Capa Award.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Ryan McGinness' Women: Sketches & Solutions


McGinness presents a body of work that has occupied his attention for the past several years. Like previous works, these begin with numerous sketches. The Women works however are unique in that the sketches are done as academic figure drawings, in the artist-and-model salon tradition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Sculpture: Irene Gennaro's Home Coming


From the artist: "In my work, I am engaged in a process of evolving self discovery. While related to many of the universal ancient myths, my work includes aspects of memory, loss, healing and continuity." Shown: "Blue & Red House," wood, oil paint, copper, mixed media
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Student Exhibition: MFA Illustration as Visual Essay 2012 Thesis Show


A group exhibition featuring selections from the 20 thesis projects produced by the graduating class of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department. Curated by faculty member David Sandlin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Xoregos Performing Company presents One-Act Gems


One-Act Gems with Noel Coward's RED PEPPERS, last seen in New ork in 1967. Written for him and Gertrude Lawrence, it's part of his legendary, ten one-acts. Rarely seen PORCELAIN AND PINK by F. Scott Fitzgerald, takes place in a bathtub! Twentieth century comedies by Jack Feldstein and Mark Harvey Levine and songs by Sir Noel complete the program. Costumes for the six actors by Katy Freeman, music director Eugene Abrams, directed by Shela Xoregos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | David W. Blight discusses his book American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era


The author takes the audience back to the centennial celebration to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. Amid cold war politics and civil rights protest, four of America’s most incisive writers explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Robert Penn Warren, the southern-reared poet-novelist who recanted his support of segregation; Bruce Catton, the journalist and U.S. Navy officer who became a popular Civil War historian; Edmund Wilson, the century’s preeminent literary critic; and James Baldwin, the searing African-American essayist and activist—each exposed America’s triumphalist memory of the war.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy


Thai Jones in conversation with Bill Ayers. 1914 was a year that began with bright expectations but quickly tumbled into disillusionment and violence, veering NYC and its citizens towards chaos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: What We Have in Our Pockets


A participatory performance and reading featuring artist Tamar Ettun and Etgar Keret, based on a Keret short story of the same name.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Who Builds Your Architecture?


Who Builds Your Architecture? emerges in part from two recent petitions: Who’s Building the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi? and Who’s Building the Global U? Both initiatives have been organized by artists, scholars, and activists and have garnered little engagement from the architectural community. With architects building globally – often disconnected from their own cultural and political contexts – what is their responsibility toward the workers who construct their buildings? Frequently designed by star architects from far away, dazzling towers, university campuses, museums, and office complexes are rising in the United Arab Emirates, the Near and the Far East, but where do the workers who build them come from? Where do they live, and what is their legal status? This panel probes whether the architect’s “uninhibited creative expression” is dependent on cheap labor performed by seasonal laborers, and what the ethical possibilities of new technologies might be that are transforming design and engineering but also reduce manual labor-intensive construction methods.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Great Thinkers of Our Time: Lisa Randall


Take advantage of this rare opportunity to connect with brilliant speakers from the worlds of science, philosophy, psychology, and the arts with Hunter College's ongoing series, Great Thinkers of Our Time. This evening, welcome Lisa Randall. Lisa Randall studies particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University. With Raman Sundrum she developed the Randall-Sundrum model. Her work has improved our understanding of baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter, and she is an expert on the workings of the Great Hadron Collider. Randall has written two books, Warped Passages, and her most recent Knocking on Heaven’s Door. A question and answer session, plus a book-signing and reception will follow the lecture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | Hugo Hamilton reads and discusses his writing


Hugo Hamilton, Villanova's current Heimbold Chairholder and author of the best selling memoir, The Speckled People, grew up with three languages — English, Irish, and German — and a sense of never really belonging to any one language or ethnic group. This acclaimed journalist and fiction writer will discuss place, craft, and language with Fernando Fernández-Savater Martín, one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Music of Ornette Coleman


Directed by Jane Ira Bloom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Signing | Oscar-winning actress Sissy Spacek talks with The Help author Kathryn Stockett


Spacek speaks with Stockett about her highly anticipated memoir My Extraordinary Ordinary Life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Pulitzer winner Anna Quindlen discusses her book Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake


Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen looks back on her career as a journalist and author as well as her marriage, friendships and her relationship with her mother, who died when Quindlen was still a teenager.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | The Innocents Abroad Premiere


Abbott & West Productions celebrates the launch of The Innocents Abroad, a new food and travel show by Nora Chovanec (pictured) and Kate Thorman. Drinks and Venezuelan hors d’oeuvres will be served early in the evening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Writers Heidi Julavits and Jesmyn Ward read their work


Heidi Julavits’s new novel is The Vanishers. Jesmyn Ward’s (pictured) novel, Salvage the Bones won the National Book Award for fiction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | The Judith of Shimoda by Bertolt Brecht, a Student Production


The Judith of Shimoda draws on historical events that occurred after Commodore Perry compelled Japan to open to the West in 1854. The play was first performed in 2008 and has been performed sparingly since. The piece examines the ways society create and tear down its heroes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Chamber Music Workshop


Quynh Nguyen, director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Israeli Documentary: Avner Faingulernt & Macabit Abramson's War Matador (2011)


During the war in Gaza in January 2009, two courageous Israeli directors brought their cameras to shoot events, subjects, alternative perspectives and visuals of the war along the common border with Gaza. The bombing is filmed from a distance, out-of-focus, at arm's length, just as the visiting Israeli tourists viewed it. These visiting groups of spectators from different parts of Israel come to see the events of the war like the attendants of a bullfight. 70 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Master Class | Piano Master Class


With Jose Ramon Mendez.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Concert | College Double Bass Recital


With Benjamin Samuel Harris.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital


With Spencer Lang, Tenor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Cello Recital


With Yoonjin Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Student Vocal Performance Chorale


Vocal Performance Program presents a night of vocal performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | The Juilliard Orchestra performs works by Bartok and Sibelius


Program: Claude Vivier’s Orion (1979) and Lonely Child (1980) Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin Suite Sibelius’ Symphony No. 7 Conductor Robert Spano, music director of the Atlanta Symphony and music director-designate of the Aspen Music Festival and School, leads the Juilliard Orchestra.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Thursday Night Meditation


Ganesh Das leads a therapeutic meditation practice. This healing Satsang is designed and blessed by his gurus and founders of the method, Sharon Gannon and David Life. Through this guided practice open to all levels, one learns to find a comfortable meditative seat, be still and focus the attention on the breath and a mantra. One learns to create space and calmness in the mind and body, amidst the daily chaos of life. This class provides a safe environment for the community to gather and openly discuss spiritual and every day aspects of life through a candid Q & A.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Workshop | Thursday Night Meditation


Ganesh Das leads a therapeutic meditation practice. This healing Satsang is designed and blessed by his gurus and founders of the method, Sharon Gannon and David Life. Through this guided practice open to all levels, one learns to find a comfortable meditative seat, be still and focus the attention on the breath and a mantra. One learns to create space and calmness in the mind and body, amidst the daily chaos of life. This class provides a safe environment for the community to gather and openly discuss spiritual and every day aspects of life through a candid Q & A.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Woodwinds Chamber Music


Esther Lamneck and Matt Sullivan, Artistic Directors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Lindigo, Reunion Island Band


Founded in 1999, Lindigo is one of the best in the Reunion Island music scene. With already an impressive experience (more than 150 concerts), Lindigo amazes with its explosive and stunning scenic representations. Combining the Maloya’s instrumental tradition with Madagascarian polyphonies, the band disrupts the rules of this kind of music. The result is a rhythmic joining of the Trance style, lyrical arrangement “volt-face”, physical involvement, interfaced with the personality of the lead singer. Lindigo follows the path of a very demanding musical performance, which expects them to push their limits higher and further.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Jazz | Music of Sun Ra


Directed by Ahmed Abdullah.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Comedy: The Scene


The Scene is a weekly showcase of improvised one act plays. Each week the show features New York’s top improvisers from Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Baby Wants Candy, Second City and more. The Scene is produced and hosted by Dan Hodapp and Micah Sherman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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Performance | New Team Lunacy Comedy Show


All you need to do is show up. Don’t have an improv group? They’ll put you in one! Have a team then bring them down! Five teams get to play for ten minutes each, and everyone has fun. Work on your skills and meet some great new people. New Team Lunacy, hosted by Erick Hellwig.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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